Actors

She was raised in the Auckland suburb of Mt. Wellington, where she was chosen from among several hundred kids to star as Pai in 2003’s acclaimed movie Whale Rider. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the best actress for her performance. In 2005, Castle Hughes appeared in Star ...

Wyatt Earp was born March 19, 1848. In Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt got into a feud using an area rancher that resulted in the gunfight in the O.K. Corral, possibly the most famous gunfight in American history. Earp died in La on January 13, 1929. A fidgety nature shaped Nicholas Earp, a ...

Produced on April 14, 1866, in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, Anne Sullivan was a talented teacher famous for her work with Helen Keller, a deaf, blind, and mute kid she instructed to convey. At just 21 years old , Sullivan showed great maturity and genius in teaching Keller and worked hard ...

Produced in 1971 in Ethiopia, Marcus Samuelsson was adopted with a Swedish family and cultivated a deep love for cooking via his grandma, who had been a chef. Samuelsson went to develop into a well-known force in international cuisine, becoming executive chef at Nyc restaurant Aquavit, receiving multiple awards through ...

Produced on July 30, 1863, near Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford created the Ford Model T automobile in 1908 and went to develop the assembly line form of creation, which revolutionized the business. Because of this, Ford sold numerous automobiles and became a world-renowned firm head. The firm lost its market ...

John Quincy Adams – Miniature Biography (TVPG; 3:31) John Quincy Adams was the oldest son of President John Adams and the sixth president of the United States. Before his presidency, Adams was one of America’s best diplomat; after, he fought from the growth of slavery. Produced in Massachusetts on July ...

Florence Nightingale – She created a nursing school and her writings started world-wide health care reform. Throughout the Crimean War, she and a team of nurses enhanced the unsanitary conditions in a British base hospital, cutting back the death count by two thirds. Her writings started world-wide healthcare reform. She ...

In 1951, she directed her fellow African American high school pupils in a walkout to protest the inequality of segregated schools. Societal activist Barbara Johns was born in New York in 1935. Johns grew up in Prince Edward County, Virginia. At that time, the schools were segregated. White pupils went to ...

He started out as a theatre actor, and became a standard as a character actor in a variety of 1950s TV shows. He loved continuous movie work in the 1960s and 1970s. While attaining great success as a film actor, he never left his love for the stage. He expired ...

Gary Gilmore was born on December 4, 1940, right into a family with the abusive and alcoholic father. Released for school, he committed a robbery and was imprisoned again. He was released on parole three years after. Executed killer. Produced Gary Mark Gilmore on December 4, 1940. Gilmore endured an unstable ...